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NASH COUNTY, NCGenWeb
INTRODUCTION
WEEKLY POSTING OF FILES
CURRENT RESEARCH AND DAILY POSTING BY THE COUNTY COORDINATOR: Establishing a Surname List for Families in Nash County, NC and Rosters Listing the Military Records of Men in the 47th North Carolina Infantry, Company A; to be followed by roster listings for the 47th North Carolina Infantry, Company D and 30th North Carolina Infantry, Company I.
NAMES AND FATE OF NASH COUNTY MEN WHO FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR: 47th NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY A
DATE: Thursday, 21 January 2010- POST
1. under the heading of “History” information on Nash County in 1867, 1868, 1869 and 1889 [check for your families]
RECENT LINK POSTS:
1. The Newberry Library, Chicago for North Carolina Sources of Family History. [in the library catalog, go to "Subject" and type in "North Carolina.]
3. LDS FamilySearch Census websites for 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900 and 1920. All listed under “Census.”
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“. . . once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone.”
George Macaulay Trevelyan, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Welcome to the Nash County site. My name is Earl Bell, the new county coordinator, and my email address for all of your submissions, comments or questions is: earl.bell3@gmail.com.
The goals of this site are: [1] to provide a place for all people, who have origins in the county, to find and submit good family information; [2] to participate in useful dialogues on the origin and evolution of their families; [3] to share photos especially ones of historical importance and ones of whole families, for example, at reunions; [4] to provide a list of useful online research sources plus identify the libraries, local, state and national, as well as archives that provide information for family researchers; [5] to increase information, on this site, on the lives of families in Nash County from the earliest days; and [6] to provide advice about finding new information when a family researcher faces one of the unavoidable dead ends inherent in looking for an ancestor. Highly valued will be family stories about your ancestors living in Nash County. My commitment is to make your problem, finding information on your family, my problem as well and we will work on it together.
An excellent map of the counties in the State of North Carolina can be found at: http://www.ncgenweb.us/county-map. Further, once the state county map appears at this site, it is possible to explore another website, lower right hand corner, on the formation of NC counties. This site provides maps of North Carolina counties and their boundaries in 1700, 1740, 1760, 1775, 1780, 1800, 1840, 1850, 1870, 1900 and 1912.
As a county coordinator, whose Nash County ancestors have lived in present-day Nashville, Oak Level, Coopers and Stony Creek Townships since the first settlers, I am hoping that we can cooperatively breathe some life into their lives. I know first hand that the county possesses some wonderful story tellers as my frequent visits to the Oak Level Cafe and the homes of my kin confirm. Please send me the stories about the lives of your parents, grandparents and other ancestors in Nash County as far back as the collective memory in your family reaches. For example, I have posted a description of my grandfather’s country store at Westry’s Siding, now Westrys, in 1915 and my cousin has posted a detailed description of his grandfather’s farm in Oak Level Township during the first decades of the twentieth century. My wish is that we expand on this modest start by building a collection of stories that helps to reveal life in every town and township throughout the county at the various moments in our shared history.
Also, on the Nash County webpage, I invite everyone to send me, for posting, a photo of a family reunion in the county, the older the better. Let’s initiate this practice by first posting the oldest photos that are submitted of family reunions by descendants. Finally, I welcome your advice and good counsel. Again, please send all your submissions, comments and questions to: earl.bell3@gmail.com. I promise you a speedy response!
All researchers interested in finding information on their Nash County families should check the posted files on USGenWeb Nash Co. Archives at http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/nash.htm. Also, family researchers are encouraged to view the posted files on this website and those on the Nash archives site as complimentary and, when explored in combination, provide the most comprehensive way in which to benefit from posted information.
“This past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.”
William Faulkner
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Welcome to the Town of Nashville, County Seat of Nash County, NC; [Click on the Photo to Enlarge]
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New Nashville Town Hall, Friday, 4 December 2009
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